Gwydion Dylan Release 2.3.5

Gwydion Dylan Release 2.3.5

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Gwydion Dylan Release 2.3.5

[I realize that Dylan with it's infix syntax doesn't look very Lispish at the first glance, but it's features, history and implementation show a close relationship to Lisp. I'm posting here in the hope to attract people who can contribute to this open-source project with their knowledge of Lisp internals, theory and technology; and to show that there are more good implementations of languages with the lambda nature.]

Release 2.3.5 of Gwydion Dylan

Gwydion Dylan is a free, open source implementation of the Dylan language, running on a wide range of platforms . It features an optimizing Dylan-to-C compiler written in Dylan, and a byte-code interpreter written in C to bootstrap the compiler.

Gwydion Dylan was originally written by the Gwydion Group at CMU and is now maintained by volunteers, known as the Gwydion Dylan Hackers.

This release increases speed of the generated code by about twenty percent, while at the same time reducing code size. With limited collections now working, the Sieve of Erathostenes in Dylan runs at 90% the speed of the C version.

More information can be found on the Gwydion Dylan Hackers web page at

http://www.*-*-*.com/

The source code is available from:

ftp://ftp.gwydiondylan.org/pub/gd/src/gwydion-dylan-2.3.5.tar.gz

although it is recommended that you install the binary distribution for your platform:

If you cannot find your platform on that list, look if an older version is available for your platform on the FTP server, and use that to compile the current source. Otherwise, contact the maintainers at